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Of all the financial institutions one might guess would become the first U.S. bank to issue its own digital coin, it's safe to assume that JPMorgan Chase would not be the first choice. After all, CEO Jamie Dimon has famously called bitcoin "a fraud" and then doubled down on his criticisms by declaring "these crypto things are kind of a

In its first report looking into what happened to the money that shuttered Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX owes its investors, advisory firm Ernst &amp; Young has found that an additional 103 bitcoin valued at C$468,675 ($354,300) were moved on Feb. 6 to a cold wallet protected by a password only its founder - who died in December - knew. Quadriga

The Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX owes its investors about $250 million CAD (US$190 million) in both cryptocurrencies and fiat funds, but the company claims its late founder was the only person at the company who knew how to access the money, as CoinDesk reported early last week. Citing court documents it had obtained from the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, CoinDesk

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking both large and small companies that can provide blockchain data "to support the SEC's efforts to monitor risk, improve compliance, and inform Commission policy with respect to digital assets," the agency announced. Specifically, the SEC wants tech solutions that "extracts blockchain data and parses this data to make it easily reviewable." Here

The Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX owes its investors about $250 million CAD (US$190 million) in both cryptocurrencies and fiat funds, but its late founder was the only person at the company who knew how to access the money, as CoinDesk reports. Citing court documents it had obtained from the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, CoinDesk notes that "there were roughly 115,000

Well, here's something to keep crypto investors up at night: A new report by Chainalysis has found that "two prominent, professional hacking groups" have been responsible for stealing about $1 billion in digital coins thus far, accounting for at least 60% of all publicly recorded hacks. According to Chainalysis - a firm that tracks cryptocurrency transactions - these two hacking groups,

In a speech he delivered last December, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner Jay Clayton somewhat surprisingly acknowledged that he believed initial coin offerings (ICOs) are potentially "effective ways for entrepreneurs and others to raise capital." It became a little less surprising, however, when Clayton added one big caveat: "The novel technological nature of an ICO does not change the fundamental

During his short tenure as interior secretary in the Trump administration, Ryan Zinke was primarily known for two things: Leading the White House's aggressive rollback of environmental protections and being the target of several federal investigations into alleged corruption that eventually led to his resignation in December. But now Zinke wants to be known for something else, as he's been